Coventry Telegraph

Read this book with smelling salts handy

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MICHAEL Lanagan recently wrote to complain that the Brexit referendum was invalid due to a relatively small sum that was not fully accounted for and declared.

The leave campaign is also under investigat­ion. How about the £9.3 million spent by David Cameron in posting propaganda to every home stating that a leave vote would have dire consequenc­es? Would it not instead have been more fair to spend a similar sum on putting out the advantages of departing the EU?

If the EU had been willing to adopt some of the pre-referendum proposals asked for by David Cameron then Brexit would have lost. If you really want the true story of how dire the EU mismanages huge sums of money, read a book entitled Brussels Laid Bare by a former EU chief accountant Marta Andreasen MEP. She was employed to sort out proper accounts that the EU had not had signed off for many years and were suspected to hide massive fraud and waste and incompeten­ce. She found she was stopped from doing her job at every turn from a legion of officials.

All Remainers need to read this 132-page book whilst having smelling salts handy, in case the contents shake your conviction­s that remaining in the EU is still the best option.

The world economy may well slow down as a result of Donald Trump’s trade war with China and the EU, and other more minor targets, this should not be confused with any Brexit effects. During the next few months and years you will no doubt see Remainers stating that Brexit is having an effect on trade, whereas any downturn will be mainly due to Donald Trump’s actions – this will convenient­ly be ignored by the Remainer lobby. Paul Hillock Stoke Green there’s simply no humane way to steal animals’ body parts. Doing so is the very definition of bullying: “abuse and mistreatme­nt of someone vulnerable by someone stronger”.

Canada Goose uses coyote fur to trim its jackets. Other brands use fur obtained from farms in Europe, China or elsewhere, where animals are denied the opportunit­y to do anything natural to them.

The decision to ban brands sends a powerful message of inclusion and kindness, and PETA encourages every school to follow its example. Jennifer White PETA UK

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